Radclyffe Hall – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:34:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Inversion on the Beach https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/04/24/inversion-on-the-beach/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:34:23 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=161 The Golden Cage, Tereska Torrès (1959, Avon, published by arrangement with the Dial Press)

“Miss Torres is a very naughty Aphrodite presiding over a multitude of libidinous extravaganzas.” (Parade of Books)

Some pulps are meant to be skimmed, and the works of Tereska Torrès belong to that category. She favors the Grand Hotel approach to fiction: a group of disparate people are brought together by unusual circumstances and Tereska tells us a series of colorful, unrelated stories about them. She used this technique in Women’s Barracks (1950), the ground-breaking pulp that started the craze for paperback lesbians, and she uses it in The Golden Cage, one … Read more

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